While Pixar itself has yet to succumb to smugness, complacency and diminishing returns, their champions could learn something from the studio's example. There's a peculiar push-pull attached to the studio and how people evaluate it. For example: every summer, before their newest movie comes out, box-office prognosticators predict imminent failure (people won't want to watch a rat/mute robot/old man), then eat their words. This leads to resentment, as though Pixar's financial success...